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7 – 8 June 2010
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Univerity of Geneva
Doaa Abdel Motaal, World Trade Organisation
The relationships between trade and environment have several facets, including issues such as the resort to unilateral trade measures for environmental purposes, the status of process and production methods
(PPMs) within WTO or the relationships between multilateral environmental treaties (MEAs) and WTO. These issues and others will be analyzed, with a special emphasis being put on the case-law of the WTO dispute settlement bodies.
The links between climate change and WTO will also be dealt with, looking at the many interlinkages between the international trade and international climate agendas, in the post-Copenhagen landscape.
Lecturers:
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes has gained a wide-ranging reputation in academic circles for her contribution to international law, in such fields as the law of international organizations, international economic law and international environmental law, while at the same time being recognized for her practical work as Senior Counsel to the World Bank and as advisor to many international organizations. In the field of dispute settlement she has served as chairperson of WTO arbitration panels on pre-shipment inspections and has pleaded before the ICJ and other dispute settlement procedures. She is a member of the WTO indicative list of governmental and non-governmental panelists and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Laurence Boisson de Chazournes has been professor in, and chair of the department of, international law at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva since 1999. She is a visiting professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and at the University of Aix-Marseille III, and has been invited as guest lecturer in numerous universities in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa and Asia. She holds a PhD in international law from the Graduate Institute (summa cum laude), the Bar exam (France), a JD and a master degree in private law from the University of Lyon III, a BA in sociology from the University of Lyon II and a Diploma in Political Science from the Institute of Political Sciences (Lyon).
Doaa Abdel Motaal is Counsellor in the Office of the Director-General of the WTO, where she is responsible for a number of subjects, including Doha Round agricultural and environmental negotiations. Prior to joining the Director-General's Office, she was working in the WTO's Trade and Environment Division for 8 years. She was Secretary of the negotiating group on environment that was established in the Doha Round. Ms. Abdel Motaal has a PhD in Development Studies from the IUED at the University of Geneva, a Master of Philosophy degree in environment and development studies from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Her doctoral dissertation was the The Role of Science and Risk Assessment in WTO Rules.
Cost: CHF 1’000.-
Registration date: 31 May 2010
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Master Programme (MILE) 
